Giorgio de Silva, co-owner and artistic director of de Silva Associates, holds a degree in architecture from the Turin Polytechnic and has worked in the fields of advertising, graphic design, visual arts and architecture. He has been an image and advertising consultant for public and private corporations and has collaborated as publishing art director for Seat Pagine Gialle (Yellow Pages). Giorgio's works have been on exhibit in many private galleries. In 1991 the Val d'Aosta Region dedicated a one-man exhibition to his work with the title "Memories from nowhere".